Cloud Acronyms
CNAPP
What is the acronym for Cloud Native Application Protection Platform?
A type of fraud whereby victims are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out.
What is a "Pig Butchering Scam"?
This is the year that Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.
What is 1985?
This computer exploit developed by the U.S. NSA and was leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group in April 2017, one month after Microsoft released patches for the vulnerability.
What is "Eternal Blue"?
This is a type of training that would help users detect almost any type of scam email because they always use this technique to trick people.
What is "Social Engineering Training"?
CSNP
What is the acronym for Cloud Security Native Platform?
This car hailing company was breached in September 2022 when a user left admin credentials in a script obtained by hackers.
Who is Uber?
This is what 'NT' stood for in Windows NT.
What is New Technology?
This high profile vulnerability in Apache identified at the end of 2021 continued making headlines through 2022?
What is Log4Shell (in Log4j)?
Making phone calls or leaving voice messages pretending to be from real companies that attempts to persuade individuals to reveal personal information, such as bank details and credit card numbers
What is Vishing?
CSPM
What is the acronym for Cloud Security Posture Management?
Name of the person who recently blew the whistle on Twitter’s poor cybersecurity practices.
Who is Peiter "Mudge" Zatko?
This is the name of the group that Mudge was member of when first testifying to Congress in 1998?
What is l0pht?
This vulnerability is often paired with a famous comic featuring “Little Bobby Tables”
What is "SQL injection"?
Sprinkle some on a cryptographic function to make sure no two digests are ever the same.
What is salt?
WAAS
What is the acronym for "Web Application and API Security"?
The credit card payment processor is one of the world’s largest, processing about 100 million transactions per month for Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Its system was compromised in 2008 and an estimated 130 million customer accounts were accessed, making it one of the largest credit card hacks in history.
What is the Heartland Payment Systems hack?
Year when the first website was launched on the World Wide Web.
What is 1991?
A browser attack where data is POST'ed from outside the actual web application, typically from another site.
What is "Cross Site Scripting"?
The organization responsible for the creation of the SHA-256 algorithm.
Who is the NSA?
CI/CD
What is the acronym for Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment?
This act of "cyber-war" in 2017 was the most expensive release of malicious code on computer systems in history costing companies worldwide ~$10 Billion
What is the NotPetya worm?
This early-internet era virus, which entered computers through a vulnerability in the Unix sendmail program, was written by the son of the NSA's chief security scientist
What is the Morris Worm?
Technique used to alter MAC and IP addresses of a network in order to manipulate routing paths, generally used to launch man-in-the-middle attacks.
What is "ARP Poisoning"?
Professional football teams who have tied for the most super bowl wins since 1967 (Super Bowl I.)
Who are the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots?